Lydia Davis Whistles

“I don’t remember what Davis read, except that it whistled through the air perfectly.” At Electric Literature, Freeman’s editor John Freemanwrites about the experience of publishing Lydia Davis. We have a fewpieces about Davis to pair with it.

“I move in a desultory society and often a week or two will roll by without my going to anybody's house to dinner or anyone's coming to mine, but when an occasion does arise, and I am summoned, something usually turns up (an hour or two in advance) to make all human intercourse seem vastly inappropriate.” In the new issue of The Atlantic Weekly (not to be confused with the Monthly), a reprint of a classic E.B. White essay.

University of Alabama graduate student Amanda Moore has written a powerful “Open Letter to the Boys of the Street” in which she addresses the troubling and all-too-apparent issue of street harassment. Meanwhile, photographer Hannah Price shares striking images of the Philadelphia men who’ve catcalled her.

Jenny Diski, a prolific author who'd kept up a serialized diary of living with cancersince 2014, died this morning at the age of 68. Her partner, Ian Patterson, broke the news on Twitter, after which outlets including The Guardianconfirmed it. The author had recently published her final book, a memoir.

On the occasion of its first anniversary, The Second Pass founder John Williamsgets interviewed by VQR. "I realize I’m not making a convincing case for the Luddite thing. You’ll just have to trust me."

"I saw it as a breath of fresh dark honest night air. I could live in my grief and be weird in my grief." A.N. Deverswrites about her love of Twin Peaks for Longreads, situating the show within her contemporary experiences of losing her grandparents and her girlhood.